Stanley Griswold

Stanley Griswold (14 November 1763-21 August 1815) was a US Senator from Ohio from 18 May to 11 December 1809, succeeding Edward Tiffin and preceding Alexander Campbell. He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
Stanley Griswold was born in Torrington, Connecticut in 1763, and he served in the militia during the American Revolutionary War. He taught at Norwich during the 1780s, and he preached in New Milford from 1789 to 1802. In 1803, he became the editor of a Democratic-Republican newspaper in New Hampshire, and he worked with the paper until 1805, when President Thomas Jefferson appointed him Secretary of the Michigan Territory, serving until 1808. In 1808, he moved to Ohio, and he was appointed to continue Edward Tiffin's unexpired US Senate term before Alexander Campbell was elected as the new Senator in a special election. Griswold became a federal judge in the Illinois Territory, and he died in 1815.